For my Typography class

This week we are reading about Print Fonts vs Web Fonts. There aren't very many "pretty" pictures about this topic, but, I did find a couple of examples for you to compare.

For Typography, see my previous post, please.

This week we are talking about colors & emotions in Design Media/Principles so I thought I would throw some at you.....

The pinks and violets in this one say old fashioned, romance, that kind of thing to me...

Here we have a deeper violet color, but, the way it is used is much more sensual, sexual & alluring...

Don't you think?

Then you have a Midnight Blue Maserati.....my absolute FAVORITE color!!!!

 And.... who wouldn't want something that looked like this in their home....heavenly!

Lastly, speaking of heavenly, this picture of lightning has both the violets and the midnight blues.

               Beautiful!

This week, some of the things we are studying are dingbats and symbols. These have always fascinated me. There are at least as many of these as there are type styles.

There are some very interesting things out there. Some symbol sets are detailed as much as, or even more than, clip-art. Dig hard and you might be surprised by what you find.

I looked for this in a "W", but could only find the "P". I think it would make a pretty sharp monogram or logo element. It kind of amazed me that a simple letter could be so dramatic.

Here is a different take on The Avengers. It has just six key elements but gets the entire message across. I think this is a pretty cool approach!

What an awesome 3-D effect on this Heineken billboard. The hand looks like it is coming out of the wall to grab the bottle. Bravo designers!

I decided to show you some of my work this time. 

These are two different layouts I came up with for this customer. They had their logo "Steinmetz Pediatric Dentistry" but didn't know where to go from there. I came up with many more ideas, but these were the final two. In this instance I didn't have direct contact with the client, only written instructions as to the information they wanted included and that they also liked "sky blue" and would love to see it included somehow.

Even though it seems a bit cluttered, the customer went with the bottom design.

All I was given for this was the print information.
This is a good example on how you can take the absolute minimum amount of information and come up with an appealing design. The customer loved it.

The actual colors are much brighter than this scan of my paper printout.

This one was much more difficult. The client was a dentist and he wanted

to let his clients know that he now carried these mouthguards.

I had to go to the Pro-form website and do research on the product,

make sure that I was allowed to use their images and logo in my design, and 

figure out what I was going to include and what I was going to disregard.

Above is the front and below is the back (I blocked the name out on this one).

Gretchen, 

This is just for you!

Plain use of typography, but made to look 3 dimensional. Kind of "sweet" in it's own way.

If you look really closely, you'll notice that not only is the design (which is a number 2) made up of numbers, but, the background is too.

Think of the time it took to make this....

Symbols, Symbols, everywhere...

Saw this on another blog & thought it was kind of neat.

These images are from Si Scott Studios. I really like the way that the swirls and lines all combine to become different animals, insects, fish, etc. They are very fascinating to me visually.

I really liked the way the text was set on the curve & the way it was done to give depth to the image. Also, I thought that it was very interesting in the way you couldn't read the entire thing straight across, you had to read in all different directions. I hope you enjoy it.

I really liked the way the word "Typography is done here. It draws my attention & has me wanting to know what happened or what is going to happen.